HIKING & CAMPING

Photo By Kathy Ritter Today’s Photo of the Day is “Fog Creep” by Kathy Ritter. Location: Arizona. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and

Share with your friends! Getting into a regular yoga practice can have a lot of benefits on and off the mat, especially for hikers and backpackers. As a yoga instructor and avid hiker myself, I make it a point to practice regular basic yoga stretches to help me stay injury-free when I’m out on the

Photo By eabowe Today’s Photo of the Day is “Howling Coyote” by eabowe. Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. “It was very cold, but I had been watching this coyote for about 45 minutes as it hunted in the snow-covered Lamar Valley,” explains eabowe. “My hope was that I would be able to catch it as

After new flagship full-frame camera releases in 2021 from Canon, Nikon and Sony, 2022 was quieter on the full-frame mirrorless front, but there were some exciting introductions of smaller-sensor cameras. Full-frame models tend to draw the most attention, but there are advantages of APS-C and Micro Four Thirds sensors in terms of focal length magnification

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Three years after it closed due to Covid concerns, the Instagram-famous blue waters of the Grand Canyon’s Havasu Falls will open

Winter backpacking comes with its host of challenges, from navigating through deep snow to managing weather to figuring out how to sleep warm. One especially difficult one for hikers new to the fourth season: cooking in the cold. Melting snow for water, keeping the pot boiling when the weather outside is too frigid to stay

Everyone has their own tricks for feeling warm on a cold winter camping trip. Here’s our favorite: Eat something spicy. While it won’t actually raise your body temperature (pack the right layers) the warm tingle of eating something with a kick will always help us feel toasty in freezing temps. We’ve collected 6 of our

I was always more of a dog person than a cat person. At least, that’s what I told myself up until the morning Frederick wandered into my apartment in Moab, Utah. At about a year old, Fred was a fuzzball of a feral cat who would disappear for weeks at a time, popping up back

Congratulations to Karthik Subramaniam for winning the recent Stillness Assignment with the image, “Patience.” View the winning image and a selection of submissions below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots!

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Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Everyone has a different strategy for staying fueled on the trail. Some of us snack incessantly, some of us stake out

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Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. So far in 2023, 15 people have been rescued from the slopes of Mount San Antonio (also called Mount Baldy), two

The tapping of a downy woodpecker on an old-growth Douglas fir has a similar cadence to that of semi-automatic weapons fire. The deep, resonating mating call of the sooty grouse sounds a little like distant artillery blasts. A startled Roosevelt elk leaping through the brush might pique the senses of an alert veteran still with